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improsperity |
improsperous |
improvability |
improvable |
improve |
improved
| improvement
| improver
| improvided
| improvidence
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improved
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective improved has 3 senses
- improved(a = adj.all) Array - made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing; "new houses are springing up on an improved tract of land near the river"; "an improved breed" Antonym: unimproved
- improved(s = adj.all) Array - become or made better in quality; "was proud of his improved grades"; "an improved viewfinder"
- improved(s = adj.all) Array - (of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush; "improved farmlands"
CIDE DICTIONARY
improved, adj.
- advanced to a more desirable or valuable or excellent state. Opposite of
unimproved . [WordNet 1.5] - changed for the better; as, her improved behavior. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
improved
advanced, altered, ameliorated, beautified, better, bettered, changeable, changed, civilized, converted, cultivated, cultured, degenerate, developed, deviant, divergent, educated, embellished, enhanced, enriched, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, mutant, perfected, polished, qualified, rebuilt, refined, reformed, renewed, revived, revolutionary, subversive, transfigured, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmitigated, worseROGET THESAURUS
improved
Improvement
N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.
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